EGYPTIAN PAPYRUS WITH DEMOTIC INSCRIPTION. Ca. 30 BC - AD 400. A sheet of papyrus inscribed with demotic text in black ink. Demotic was used specifically for writing detailed documents, like accounting, literacy, and religious texts, and represents a movement from standardised hieroglyphs. Demotic was used famously as one of three writings on the Rosetta stone. Framed. Reviewed by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 09.182.54; The British Museum, Museum number EA10026. Size: 330mm x 240mm; Weight: 305g Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. Dr. Ulrich Müller collection, Switzerland, 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.